Registering device.



H. B. ROUSE.

REGISTERING DEVICE.- APPLICATION PILED JUNE 26.1903.

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HARRY B. HOUSE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REGISTERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed June 26.1903. Serial No. 163.187.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY B. RoUsE, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Registering Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to spacing or registering devices for printers use and has for its object the provision of mechanism of this character that is adapted to accurately position or register adjacent plates and forms.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention I have produced a structure-wherein the plates of a form may be brought very close together to economize paper and increase the capacity of the press, this preferred form of the invention at the same time permitting and eifecting the most accurate adjustment of the plates, and permitting fairly wide spacing between the plates if desired at the same time permitting adjustment between the pagesindependently. To this end I have provided the combination with a plate or strip desirably made thin, of a threaded stud carried thereby and a nut having threaded engagement with the stud, the nut engaging one plate of the form while the thin strip engages an opposing plate of the form. By adjusting the position of the nut upon the stud, the total width of the registering device may be regulated to determine the space that is to intervene between the plates of the form which result may be accomplished in part as stated after the plates of the form are in position and the spacing devices have been located. In the preferred embodiment of the invention the stud is riveted or otherwise fixed upon andimmovable with respect to the thin strip of metal forming a part of my device. The nut is preferably made circular and of a width or thickness suflicient to cooperate with the stud to occupy the maximum space between the adjacent plates for which the device is to be adapted. This nut is preferably provided with a series of circular recesses radially disposed into which a small rod or rotating tool may be inserted to effect the selected adjustment between the stud and the nut.

I will explain my invention more fully by reference to the accompanying drawing in which;

Figure 1 to Fig. 3 inclusiveindicate the preferred embodiment, Fig. 1 being a top view, Fig. 2 a horizontal sectional view, Fig. 3 a front view looking toward the nut.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the different figures.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, an

elongated plate a carries at its central portion a threaded stud b that is preferably made immovable with respect to the plate by being riveted thereto, there being preferably no threaded engagement between the stud and plate whereby the said plate may be made very thin.

The nut c is preferably of a width or thickness over all that is co-extensive with the length of that portion of the stud proj ecting from the plate a to enable the parts to occupy a very narrow space, in one adjust-- ment, and a com aratively wide space in the extreme of the alternative adjustment. The nut 0 may be of any suitable contour, and of the requisite shape to engage a turning tool or rod. I have illustrated radially disposed recesses d d. In order to prevent the plate a from turning as the nut is rotated, said plate is desirably'elongated. In order to prevent the nut from worming its way along a face of the form, it is preferably provided with a projection e, desirably a V shaped annular ridge concentric with the nut. The manner in which the adjacent plates of a form are eng'aged by the device of my invention is illus trated in Fig. 2 where parts g g of such form plates are indicated.

It will be seen that I have provided a printers registering device, comprising a plate, a stud projecting therefrom and nonextensible with respect thereto, and a nut upon the stud, the width or thickness of the nut and the length of the portion of the stud projecting from the plate being substantially co-extenslve. By non-extensible I mean such construction that does not permit of varying distances of projection for the stud, which otherwise will be permitted, if such constructions are used as that set forth in Patent No. 540,286, dated June 4, 1895, and granted to F. Wait. this patent the stud, unlike the stud of my device, has threaded connection with the block, and the structure of this patent is in other respects different from that herein set forth.

Having thus described my invention I In the construction of therefrom and fiXed with respect thereto and claim as new and desire to Patent the following: 1. A printers registering device, comprising a plate, a stud projecting therefrom and fixed with respect thereto and a nut upon the j stud, said nut having an annular projection forengagement with a portion of a form the l width or thickness of the nut and the length I In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe of the portion of the stud projecting from the j my name this twenty fourth day of June A. plate being substantially co-extensive, sub- 1 D., 1903. stantially as described. HARRY B. ROUSE.

2. A printers registering device, coinpris- Witnesses: ing an elongated plate, a stud projecting GEORGE L. CRAGG,

HUBERT O. BARTON.

annular projection for engagement with .a portion of a form the width or thickness of the nut and the length of the portion of the stud projecting from the plate being sub stantially co-extensive, substantially as described.

secure by Letters a nut upon the stud, said nut having an- 

